Software Defined Interviews

Coté doesn't like asking people to do things for him...or people in general.

Links:

• 070: Kubernetes with Joe Beda, The Frontside Podcast — Always be DevOps'in'.
• Paleo French Cuisine - Kindle edition by Chef Alain Braux. Cookbooks, Food & Wine Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. — Less beans, more fruit.
• Southern Culture On The Skids: Dirt Track Date — Good hold music.
• Frijoles charros - Wikipedia — These are the best means that humanity has come up with to date.
• Pivotal Conversations: Cloud-Native Monitoring & PCF Metrics, With Todd Persen (Ep. 65) — In an open source business, you have to figure out how to ask people for money.
• Show Topics and notes — Our ongoing list of show topics and scratch-pad for shows.
• What Makes People Do What They Do? Freakonomics — The Israeli pay for being late to pick up your kid story.
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable — Actually pretty good.
• Maestro's Classic Beard Butter Wisemen's Blend 8 Ounce — This is what Coté uses, but you can feel free to skip caring about beard-care for the first two years or so.
• GitHub - felipeochoa/rjsx-mode: A JSX major mode for Emacs
• Menlo Font

Matt Curry is back! In this episode recorded at OSCON 2017, we discuss the problems with getting people to change, from staff to management, private sector and government.

We hear about the days when Charles was drilling for oil. Also, waffles: "I suffered years of floppy-waffles." We also discuss the deal with kombucha, to no effect, really.

And, as always, Charles' emacs configuration tip of the week.

Links:

• The Wheel of Time series
• Show Topics
• Planet Money buys oil
• There Will be Blood
• Big Oil profit margins — Something like 6-7%
• Avocado Oil
• Whale oil — "nearly 236,000 whales were killed in the 19th century"

When you travel, people have a lot of thoughts about Texas.

Links:

• Skype Call Recorder
• Topic list
• That podcast we used to do
• “You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.” — It was Davy Crockett.
• "Don't mess with Texas" — “The campaign is credited with reducing litter on Texas highways roughly 72% between 1986 and 1990.”
• O'Tacos — Panini "tacos" in Paris.
• Cooper's now in Austin
• The Splendid Table with Lynne Rossetto Kasper
• Original My Little Pony theme song
• South American pan pipe sounds
• Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio are top 10 US cities, by population — Austin is #11.
• Who invented the breakfast taco?
• Header image of blue bonnets from rubengarciajrphotography

Charles & Coté reboot their old podcast about regular things. Also, a rant on photo management in Apple-land and how terrible enterprise IT news it. Plus, upcoming topics.

Links:

• Screenhero
• Oracle's financials, past three years — They're pretty much "flat."
• The Software Paradox — Among other things, Stephen O'Grady analyzes Oracle's finances and what it says about their software portfolio and what companies are now buying, i.e., SaaS.
• Kubernetes tool saves eBay from its OpenStack woes
• Kara Swisher on the Ezra Klein show
• 451 Research

Having worked in cloud since before cloud, JJ and I talk about what companies are using various cloud things for. We also discuss the conceptual history of cloud, and what exactly he does as a "business development" person at Chef.

You might also know him from his "being an introvert at conferences" talk.

Check him out in Twitter @jjasghar

Special Guest: JJ Asghar.

What's up with all those cash numbers in quarterly reports, and what's the deal with "analyst expectations"? In this brief episode I talk with RedMonk's Rachel Stephens to get some quick tips on what to do with all that stuff.

Find her in Twitter (@rstephensme) and on her RedMonk blog. See also this fine mound of cheese.

Special Guest: Rachel Stephens.

We discuss all the human and process changes needed to do good things with computers.

Special Guest: Bridget Kromhout.

Links:

• Video recording of this episode — The livestreamed recording we did.

Josh Long and I discuss “reactive programming."

Special Guest: Josh Long.

Links:

• Video recording of this episode — The livestreamed video of Josh and I's talk.